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Jul. 23rd, 2013

Autism Memorial is dedicated to remembering those autistic people who died because of malpractice, lack of resources or support, or outright murder. Occasionally, a news story will be widely covered, but most cases receive very little memorial. Even when an autistic person is murdered by a family member and it becomes a big news story, the autistic person often becomes lost amidst sympathy for the murderer. This site is here because everyone should be valued, and everyone should be remembered.

Nov. 22nd, 2016

Details:Chance and three of his brothers, including his two-year-old little brother, lived with their mother. Five months before his death, his mother's boyfriend moved in with them. He was controlling and violent and beat both boys; Chance had to go to the hospital twice for head injuries. Each time his mother said they had been accidental.

On the morning of November 22, Chance was found unresponsive and taken to the hospital, but he could not be revived. Doctors found that he had a skull fracture, and saw that his body had bruises and a burn. They became worried for Chance's surviving three brothers.

Chance's little brother had been taken to the hospital along with Chance. When doctors examined the two-year-old, they found injuries consistent with abuse.

Chance's three brothers were taken into state care; his mother's boyfriend was arrested for child abuse.

Nov. 13th, 2016

Details:TJ was abused and starved by his mother and her boyfriend; then he went missing. His body has been found, and his mother and her boyfriend charged with murder, but his cause of death remains unknown.

Oct. 29th, 2016

Details:Tianna's family, under investigation in her death, has given several different explanations of why Tianna died. They said she died of chicken pox or a brain tumor, that she drowned in the bathtub or that another child had drowned her.

How Tianna died is not known, but what is known is that Tianna's body was found stuffed into a concrete-filled storage container four years later.

Details:Elisa and Martin were from Colombia and lived in Australia. Their neighbors often saw them playing in the front yard. At school, Elisa used to take teachers' hands and take them on walks. Martin was a talented and precocious artist.

Elisa, Martin, and their mother Maria were killed in a murder-suicide by their father, who had installed pipes to turn the house into a gas chamber and released carbon monoxide into the children's bedrooms, killing the whole family.

Oct. 4th, 2016

Details:His family describes Carl Gregory as a very typical 20-year-old who loved gaming, modern technology, and Pokémon Go. He had a girlfriend named Chloe, with whom he'd broken up; but they had remained friends and were considering going back to dating again. He was a Marlowe Academy graduate who worked as an online personal shopper for Sainsbury's.

Carl may have been playing Pokémon Go when he was out in a supermarket parking lot. Two men, acquaintances of his, attacked and killed him by beating and strangling him. Initially called "the first Pokémon Go murder" and widely covered, Carl's death fell out of the media spotlight when Chloe and his family explained that the mobile game had nothing to do with the murder.

The prosecutor in the case has stated that he believes there were "elements of vulnerability" involved in the murder because of Carl's Asperger syndrome.

Details:In addition to autism, Austin was blind in both eyes and had adrenal insufficiency, so that he depended on steroid medication to replace the hormones normally produced by the adrenal glands.

Austin’s mother got high on meth and took him out to a field in the middle of nowhere. For two days, she withheld his food, water, and medication in the summer heat while Austin begged for her help and she refused to help him. He died from dehydration and from being refused the medication he needed to live.

His mother was charged with second-degree murder and abuse of an elderly or disabled person.